There’s certain licks that we want to do, that Charlie did. When we talk about what Charlie did on this one, we listen to the original record, and then we listen to the live versions. “He played with Keith before we started the rehearsals, and then he did homework, listening to the tunes. “He’s very respectful of Charlie,” Jagger said. The drummer has been in their orbit since the Eighties, and he was a member of Keith Richards’ band X-Pensive Winos. They’ve spent the past few weeks rehearsing with Steve Jordan. It was something I’ve had since I was 19. “I could lay on there, and I know that not only would I have a good sleep, but I’d wake up and it’d still be rocking. “A most vital part of being in this band was that Charlie Watts was my bed,” he continued. He had an incredible sense of humor that he kept to himself unless you sparked it. If you could hit that spot, he wouldn’t stop, and it was the funniest thing in the world. “Charlie had an incredible sense of humor,” he said. The Private Lives of Liza Minnelli (The Rainbow Ends Here) We had some really nice conversations in the last couple of years about how all this happened with the band. “He held the band together for so long, musically, because he was the rock the rest of it was built around … The thing he brought was this beautiful sense of swing and swerve that most bands wish they could have.
“The thing about Charlie was that he was always there, always played beautifully and was always willing to discuss what to do about it – how he could make it better,” Mick Jagger said. The main topic through all of the interviews was the loss of Watts.
The Rolling Stones have kept a low public profile since the death of Charlie Watts on August 24th, but in a series of new interviews with longtime Rolling Stone writer David Fricke, they talk about the devastating loss, moving forward with drummer Steve Jordan, the song selection for their upcoming tour, and a possible continuation of the tour next year, which happens to be their 60th anniversary.
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